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Stable Isotopes and Archaeology: A Bibliography

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Ambrose, Stanley H., Jane Buikstra, and Harold W. Krueger 2003 Status and gender differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(3):217-226.

Ambrose, Stanley H. and John Krigbaum 2003 Bone chemistry and bioarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(3):193-199.

Balakrishnan, Meena, Crayton J. Yapp, David J. Meltzer, and James L. Theler 2005 Paleoenvironment of the Folsom archaeological site, New Mexico, USA, approximately 10,500 14C yr BP as inferred from teh stable isotope composition of fossil land snail shells. Quaternary Research 6331-44.

Barbarena, R. and L. A. Borrero 2005 Stable isotopes and faunal bones: Commens on Milner et al. (2004). Antiquity 79191-195.

Brown, David O. 1998 Late Holocene climates of north-central Texas. Bousman, C. Britt and Brown, David O. Plains Anthropologist 43(164), 157-17.

Budd, Paul, et al. 2004 Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: A report from Britain. Antiquity 78(299):127-141.

Coltrain, Joan B., M. G. Hayes, and Dennis H. O'Rourke 2004 Sealing, whaling and caribou: the skeletal isotope chemistry of Eastern Arctic foragers. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(1):39-57.

Copley, M. S., et al. 2005 Dairying in antiquity. I. Evidence from absorbed lipid residues dating to the British Iron Age . Journal of Archaeological Science 32(4):485-503.

Copley, M. S., et al. 2005 Dairying in antiquity. II. Evidence from absorbed lipid residues dating to the British Bronze Age. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(4):505-521.

Copley, M. S., et al. 2005 Dairying in Antiquity III: Evidence from absorbed lipid residues dating to the British Neolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(4):523-546.

Cox, Glenda, Judith Sealy, Carmel Schrire, and Alan Morris 2001 Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. World Archaeology 33(1):73-97.

Deith, Margaret R. 1986 Subsistence strategies at a Mesolithic camp site: Evidence from stable isotope analyses of shells. Journal of Archaeological Science 61-78.

DeNiro, Michael J. 1987 Stable isotopy and archaeology. American Scientist 75:182-191.

Eriksson, Gunilla 2004 Part-time farmers or hard-core sealers? Västerbjers studied by means of stable isotope analysis. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 23(3):135-162.

Harrison, Roman G. and M. A. Katzenberg 2003 Paleodiet studies using stable carbon isotopes from bone apatite and collagen: examples from Southern Ontario and San Nicolas Island, California. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(3):227-244.

Krigbaum, John 2003 Neolithic subsistence patterns in northern Borneo reconstructed with stable carbon isotopes of enamel. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(3):292-304.

Lee-Thorp, Julia and Matt Sponheimer 2003 Three case studies used to reassess the reliability of fossil bone and enamel isotope signals for paleodietary studies. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(3):208-216.

Milner, N., et al. 2003 Something fishy in the Neolithic? A re-evaluation of stable isotope analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic coastal populations. Antiquity 78:9-22.

Peters, Charles R. and John C. Vogel 2005 Africa's wild C4 plant foods and possible early hominid diets. Journal of Human Evolution 48(3):219-236.

Price, T. D., Corina Knipper, Gisela Grupe, and Vaclav Smrcka 2004 Strontium isotopes and prehistoric human migration: The Bell Beaker period in central Europe. European Journal of Archaeology 7(1):9-40.

Richards, M. P. and P. A. Mellars 1998 Stable isotopes and the seasonality of the Oronsay middens. Antiquity 72:178-184.

Rollins, Harold B., Daniel H. Sandwiess, and Judith C. Rollins 1990 Mollusks and coastal archaeology: A review. In Archaeological Geology of North America; Centennial Special Volume 4. N. P. Lasca and J. Donahue, eds. Pp. 467-478. Boulder: Geological Society of America.

Schoeninger, Margaret J. 1995 Stable isotope studies in human evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 4(3):83-98.

Schoeninger, Margaret J., Holly Reeser, and Kris Hallin 2003 Paleoenvironment of Australopithecus anamensis at Allia Bay, East Turkana, Kenya: evidence from mammalian herbivore enamel stable isotopes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(3):200-207.

Schulting, Rick J. and Michael P. Richards 2002 The wet, the wild, and the domesticated: The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition on the west coast of Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology 5(2):147-189. br]

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